Jacques Yves Cousteau Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Jacques Yves Cousteau quotes, Jacques Yves Cousteau sayings, and Jacques Yves Cousteau proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The sea is the universal sewer. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Jacques Yves Cousteau
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage mother nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The future is in the hands of those who explore and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love. Jacques Yves Cousteau
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets. Jacques Yves Cousteau
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. Jacques Yves Cousteau
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal. Jacques Yves Cousteau
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage. Jacques Yves Cousteau
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The future of nutrition is found in the ocean. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonders forever. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Over consumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today. Jacques Yves Cousteau
We must alert and organize the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Over consumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today. Jacques Yves Cousteau
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other. Jacques Yves Cousteau
It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable. Jacques Yves Cousteau
In truth we are partners of the fish, the crab, the grasses that grow beyond our sight. Upon their survival hangs our own. Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. Jacques Yves Cousteau